Feel free to delete this thread, but I didn't want to post about this in a forum of strangers. Please PM me if you can help.

I got tricked by a Windows 10 update. When the computer finished launching and W10 had updated, it opened as a temp user. SO, my files from the User Documents folders were gone. I needed to work on them so I moved them (from three specific folders) into that temp user's folders.

Computer shut down, and when I turned it on again the files were all gone. My normal user was restored and the temp user was gone with all its recently "added files" (those I had manually moved from my normal user's folder to the temporary user's one). They were deleted permanently as over 200gb of files were free again, as I checked on disksspace available.

I found a couple of recoveral softwares but they ask for nearly a hundred US$ plus it's a mess, with several other files being displayed altogether. I wish I'd be able to simply point to those three folders and restore them.